IndyCar official Beaux Barfield directs tires to be dropped on the Grand Prix of Baltimore course for a temporary chicane. The chicane was installed because cars were getting airborne over the railroad tracks on Pratt Street. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun Photo)

A worker grinds the concrete on the Grand Prix of Baltimore course by the light rail tracks at Pratt and Howard streets. Cars were catching air as they passed over the tracks. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun Photo)

IndyCar series driver E.J. Viso passes a temporary chicane installed on Pratt Street by Howard and Light Streets. The chicane was added because cars were going airborne when passing over the tracks. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun Photo)

Aug. 31: IndyCar series driver Ryan Hunter-Raey drives on track for his afternoon practice session, after a temporary Chicane was installed on Pratt Street by Howard and Light Streets. This was needed because the cars were getting airborne over the tracks. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: Marco Andretti from the IndyCar series was on the track for the 2nd annual Grand prix of Baltimore in the morning warm-up sessions. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: Simona de Sivestro from the IndyCar series drives the track for the 2nd annual Grand Prix of Baltimore in the morning warm-up sessions. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: IndyCar driver Sebastien Bourdais (L) and his race engineer look at the course map of the track around downtown Baltimore takes shape. This area is by pit entrance on the east side of the warehouse. The stacked tires will be used as barriers around corners. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: Workers lay down the final barriers along the ramp from I395 where in enters downtown Baltimore, in preparation for this weekend’s Grand Prix. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: Team members push the locally sponsored Porsche, driven by local driver Marc Bunting, into it’s paddock area by M&T Stadium as crews were setting up for this weekend’s race. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: MTA workers (in vests) and many others were getting the area around Camden Yards ready for this weekend’s race after the early afternoon Orioles game. Shown are the scenes around the Grand Prix race track in downtown Baltimore as the track is readied and the teams are setting up. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 31: Grand Prix of Baltimore officials, the track builder and Michael Andretti (L) look at options by the Light Rail tracks at Howard and Pratt Street. The cars were going airborne over the tracks where last year a chicane (a series of speed bumps) was placed. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 30: A number of Federal Hill, Fells Point and Canton businesses came together to pay for the rental and decoration of this USF2000 racing car to participate in the Grand Prix of Baltimore in honor of McCusker. The car and its driver, Canton resident Patryk Tararuj, were both on display in the square for the celebration honoring the late Nacho Mama’s and Mama’s On The Half Shell owner. (Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 30: Isaiah Downs, 9, sits in an Indy car on the grounds of Kennedy Krieger School. Grand Prix driver Zach Veach is on left. Several drivers, along with a couple of cars from this weekend’s race visited Kennedy Krieger School this morning. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 30: Four year old Matthew Merryman of Frederick reacts with glee as he sits on an Indycar fender. Grand Prix drivers James Hinchcliffe, left, and Marco Andretti, right, were some of the drivers from this weekend’s race who visited Kennedy Krieger School this morning. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 30: IndyCar driver Oriol Servia, who is in town for the Grand Prix of Baltimore, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Baltimore’s afternoon game at Camden Yards. The Chicago White Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 29: Simona De Silvestro, (white shirt) a race car driver who will race in this weekend’s Grand Prix, talks to Living Classrooms Foundation sixth grade Crossroads School students about IndyCar Racing and her car. Standing next to her at left is Brea Baylor; at right is Nasia Dismel Students are from Crossroads, a public charter middle school operated by Living Classrooms. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

Aug. 22: Party organizer Filippo Lapides, Italia Voga Wines US brand ambassador, poses with Indy Car driver Patryk Tararuj next to one of cars Tararuj races, not the car he hopes to drive in the Grand Prix Baltimore’s USF2000 race. (Baltimore Sun)

IndyCar driver Ryan Hunter-Reay overcame a bad qualifying session, a less than spectacular start and the weather to win the Grand Prix of Baltimore on Sunday.

“I’ve got nothing left in me,” Hunter-Reay said as he stepped from his car. “Almost nothing to talk. I was going to win today or go into the wall. This is what’s racing is about. We’re going to have a great championship showdown at Fontana.”

Ryan Briscoe finished second. Pole sitter Will Power was sixth.

The race results tighten the championship points race, as Hunter-Reay cut his points deficit from 37 to 17 heading to Fontana, Calif., for the concluding race of the IZOD IndyCar Season on Sept. 15. the crowds.

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